Actually maybe I should remove that page before MS take me to court for something or the other...

"As every 11-year-old kid knows, if you concentrate enough Van-der-Graff generators and expensive special effects in one place, you create a spiral space-time whirly thing, AND an interesting plotline"

Actually maybe I should remove that page before MS take me to court for something or the other...

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Not that it matters, but as I understand it, your page constitutes "common abuse" rather than "defamation". That means it's legal although it might be offensive to them (if they ever see it, which is unlikely). You could even go so far as to portray one of the odd guys as having an uncanny resemblance (why are strong resemblances so often described as "uncanny"? hmmm...) to Bill Gates, and it would not be actionable as far as I can see.

Now if you're looking to provoke a response, you could try po rtraying one of them as Dubya making an idiot of himself -- oh no, that would just be another news report, and BORING.

But you could make one of them Dubya, and another Bin Laden, and create a satirical little story-board about their mutual admiration s ociety. They could send each other Semtex valentine's day cards and the like. At the end, Bin Laden could be 'unmasked' and revealed to be Dubya's brother, Jeb, and Dubya could be quoted as saying, "Best practical joke we ever played, huh Jeb?" as they wa lk off into the sunset slapping each other's backs. .

BTW, did you know that for some reason, your board adds random letters or spaces to my posting? Seems to be at the end of my signature, but also I get spaces elsewhere. I try removing it by updating, and it adds another one (see above for example). Why is that?

"As every 11-year-old kid knows, if you concentrate enough Van-der-Graff generators and expensive special effects in one place, you create a spiral space-time whirly thing, AND an interesting plotline"

--[Not that it matters, but as I understand it, your page constitutes "common abuse" rather than "defamation".]--

I was wondering why there were so many "Microsoft-abusing" sites that had not been charged for anything. I guess "abuse" comes under "free speech", whereas if I tried to make any claims about MS as fact (e.g. if I said there was a leaked e-mail saying something), it might be treated more seriously...

--[BTW, did you know that for some reason, your board adds random letters or spaces to my posting? Seems to be at the end of my signature, but also I get spaces elsewhere. I try removing it by updating, and it adds another one (see above for example). Why is that?]--

The only other person who has complained about that is Dickon Prior. Are you using Netscape by any chance?

Originally posted by nepuamun:ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh...... i went through all the trouble in registering just to tell you that that post was HYSTERICAL !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and yes, they'll probably sue you !!!!!!

A man talking sense to himself is no madder than a man talking nonsense not to himself.